{"product_id":"9781472131010","title":"The Ghosts of Altona","description":"Author: Craig Russell\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781472131010\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 24 Sep 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 448 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO\u003cb\u003ene of the most interesting detectives around' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs head of the Polizei Hamburg's Murder Commission, \u003cb\u003eJan Fabel \u003c\/b\u003eis used to dealing with the dead. But when a routine inquiry turns violent and takes him to the brink of his own death, he emerges a changed man. Fast forward two years, and Fabel's first case at the Murder Commission comes back to haunt him.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMonika Krone's body is found at last, fifteen years after she went missing. Monika - ethereally beautiful, intelligent, cruel - was the centre of a group of students obsessed with the gothic. Fabel re-opens the case. What happened that night, when Monika left a party and disappeared into thin air?\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen men involved with Monika start turning up dead, Fabel realizes he is looking for a killer with both a hunger for revenge and a taste for the gothic. What he doesn't know is that someone has been aiding and grooming a deranged escapee as his own, personal tool for revenge.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the Jan Fabel series:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The Ghosts Of Altona is a confidently unsettling crime novel that subverts expectations with a joyful intelligence'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe National\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'\u003cb\u003eAn excellent read'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'In Jan Fabel Russell has created one of the better drawn versions of the thinking man with a badge\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eShots Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Craig Russell writes intelligently and with sensitivity . . . The Ghosts of Altona is an absorbing above average crime thriller . . . absolutely not one to miss'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSJ2B House of Books\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919459893406,"sku":"ING-9781472131010","price":46.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781472131010.jpg?v=1782812176","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781472131010","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}